Kentucky
Broadband Office
Name: Office of Broadband Development
Location: KY Infrastructure Authority
Enabling Act: KY Rev. Stat. § 224A.1118
Connectivity Snapshot
Federal Funding
Summary
BEAD | CPF | ARPA | DE |
---|---|---|---|
$1,086,172,537 |
$182,769,205 |
$3,732,120,936 |
$24,635,359 |
BEAD
Overview
Total Allocation: $1,086,172,537
Current Status: Funding Allocated
Five-Year Plan
Status: Drafted
Due: 9/4/23
Link: 5-Year Plan
Initial Proposal
Status: Unreleased
Due: 12/27/23
Link: n/a
Final Proposal
Status: Unreleased
Due: TBD
Link: n/a
Digital Equity
Middle Mile
No IIJA Middle Mile awardees
ARPA
SLFRF
- Total4
-
$3,732,120,936
- For Broadband
- $48,900,911 (1.3%)
CPF
- Total
-
$182,769,205
- For Broadband
- $182,769,205 (100%)
- Program Link
State Funding
Recent Programs5
Broadband Deployment Fund
Agency: Broadband Office
Allocation: $300M [about 1/3 of the state funds have been allocated to date]
Grantees: Rd. 1
Rules: Application & Post-Award documents available here [additional parameters detailed in statutory section creating the broadband fund, KY Rev. Stat. § 224A.1121]
Policies
Non-Traditional ISPs6
Pemitted to Offer Broadband
Municipalities | Yes |
Municipal Electric Utilities | Yes |
Electric Cooperatives | Yes (guardrails) |
Investor-Owned Utilities | Yes |
Footnotes
FCC National Broadband Map Data, as of December 31, 2022 (updated May 24, 2023).↩︎
ACS 1-Year Data, 2021, US Census Bureau.↩︎
ACLP Overview of IIJA Digital Equity Grant Programs.↩︎
Broadband infrastructure is one of several applicable uses of SLFRF funds.↩︎
Updated as of March 2023.↩︎
Updated as of September 2022.↩︎